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Russell Sage Foundation Data

Cumulative Risk of Imprisonment by Ages Thirty to Thirty-Four, 1979-2009

"Table 1.4 indicates that the lifetime risks of imprisonment have also grown during the period of prison expansion...Five percent of white men and 28 percent of black men born between 1975 and 1979 spent at least a year in prison before reaching age thirty-five. The risks of spending time in prison for this birth cohort were significantly higher among high school dropouts: 28 percent of white and 68 percent of black dropouts had spent at least a year in prison by 2009."—p. 18, Invisible Men